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Warpy

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3. Wars are sold to populations with no stake in them in two ways

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Mon Dec 12, 2016, 05:05 PM

Dec 2016

The Civil War I already addressed. The other way is a variation of "If we don't stop them now, they'll invade and kill us!" Once the propaganda really gets going, there is little way to stop fools from supporting complete madness.

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